Daiwa Energy & Infrastructure (DEI), an asset manager backed by investment bank Daiwa Securities, has invested in a large-scale battery storage project in northern Japan.
The Baltics is among the most attractive regions in Europe for battery energy storage system (BESS) investment right now, with the recent decoupling from Russia and increasing renewable energy use sending flexibility needs soaring.
IPP DTEK Group and system integrator Fluence have together put a 200MW/400MWh BESS portfolio in Ukraine into commercial operation, a milestone praised by the country’s energy minister Svitlana Grinchuk.
Optimisation platform provider Ascend Analytics and EPC firm SolarMax Technologies have announced battery storage projects by clients and partners in Texas’ ERCOT market.
Evolving market dynamics in ERCOT and CAISO, the two leading US electricity markets for battery storage, call for smart optimisation strategies, write Ali Karimian and Alden Phinney of GridBeyond.